Most research studies available show that strong family support, and regular, ongoing visits with family members during incarceration, cut the recidivism rate in half…

Family visiting, a successful program for over 26 years, is the MOST cost effective, rehabilitative tool in the Department of Corrections! Inmates who receive visits and are released to supportive families have a much better chance of living a crime free life.

Family is the center point of most of our lives. The most powerful force in a person’s life is their family. The most compelling reason for a person to change, is their family.

The family of an inmate, though guilty of nothing, suffers right alongside the inmate as though they were . . . They are the lonely, forgotten, lives in the criminal justice system

The impact on a wife of a husband's incarceration is similar to the death of a spouse, but it can be worse because it involves the same grief and fear, but additionally involves . . . shame, anger, and confusion

Matthew House is a "little House with a big heart,” The heart of Christ to the “forgotten victims": the women and children of prisoners.